^#smrgSAHAF Art Through The Ages: I Ancient, Medieval, and Non - European Art - 1976

Since publication of the first edition in 1926, Helen Gardner's Art through the Ages has been a favorite with generations of students and general readers., who have found it an exciting and informative survey- Miss Gardner's enthusiasm, knowledge, and humanity have made it possible for the beginner to learn how to see and thereby to penetrate the seeming mysteries of even the most complex artistic achievements. Every effort has been made in this volume to preserve her freshness and simplicity of style and, above all, her sympathetic approach to individual works of art and to the styles of which they are a part.

Miss Gardner completed the third edition shortly before her death in 1946. The fourth was prepared in 1959 by Professor Sumner Crosby and his colleagues at Yale University. Our fifth edition was published in 1970 and the sixth in 1975. We were led to prepare this seventh edition by the popularity of those earlier editions and by suggestions we received for further improvement.

In this edition, in addition to emendations made throughout the book, the chapters on Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque art have been thoroughly revised and expanded. The chapters on the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries have been enlarged to accommodate matter from new studies and interpretations and are presented, we believe, with improved continuity and organization. There are, of course, corresponding increases in the number of illustrations. A new feature of considerable importance is the integration of color illustrations so that they are no longer bound in isolated groups., distant from their citations, but appear in sequence among the black-and-white illustrations. (From preface)